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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. 19 The trapdoor was open just as it fess moves and I’m going to my hotel now been when Trim left it. A few feet be-' to sleep. low the level of the opening they saw| ‘‘I think your men ought to search un- water. | til they find the body of Schruggs.’’ ‘“The tide is going out, isn’t it?’ asked ‘“They shall do so. Ill have them Trim: - iscour the entire vicinity of this house and ‘“Certainly,’’ replied the captain. turn all Sydney upside down if neces- “Very well, then. In about three hours | sary.” more or less the tunnel will be probably “Vou won’t need to. The body is near dry. Itis already at a much lower level) by.” than it was when I was liere.”’ | ‘SVYou believe that?’ ‘All of which,’’ remarked Pemberton,) ‘‘Yes.”’ ‘is interesting; but what interests me| ‘ \What’s your idea?” more is the disappearance of Schruggs.; ‘‘The tunnel isso built that it will be Are you positive that he was dead?”’ filled with water only at high tide. In ‘Dead for all time,’’ answered Trim. | other words, at low tide the water will all pothesis run out excepting a portion in the middle CHAPTER VI. that is below the level of the sea. THE CUFF-BUTTON CLEW. reckon that a body thrown into the tun- vel would either be carried out to sea and you call his highness must have returned \so lost or that it would lodge in the mid- here and carried away the body.”’ dle and then be so covered with water Trim nodded. : that no one would find it there even if 3 “J don’t believe,’? said Trim, that) Hey had the nerve to try for it.”” - his highness carried the body far away. ae sie shall see,’’ exclaimed Pember- ~ It’s got to be found.”” ton, \‘‘that the Sydney police have nerve ‘“‘T suppose it has,’’ teturned the cap- enough to try for anything. tain. ‘‘but I don’t see what will be gained “It is perfectly right that you should by it.” | go to your hotel now, get a good sleep, "Trim looked thoughtfully at the cap- and report to me as early in the morning tain and asked: as you see fit.”’ ‘“Doesn’t it occtr to you as amighty| ‘Trim went away at once, and it is only queer thing that his highness should have | Necessary to speak further of the opera- come back to this house and taken away tions of that night to say that when it the | came low tide Pemberton and his men q entered the tunnel ane ~~ ale artic | : ti ae « the level o patticularly bold play ?”’ grade until they reache Well, yes, it does. I should think | water left there by. the flood, and that that he would have got as far out of the ithey then waded in and found the body of way as possible.”’ : Schruges floating near the branch passage ~ “He doesn’t want any evidences of his) that led up to the Tigers’ headquarters. be found,’’ Trim declared. In spite of his long labors Trim arose -may be.’’ the captain half ad-jearly mext morning and resumed his,in- a sould ‘he take a course! quiries among real-estate agents.. en he knows that you'll find He soon found that the house used by : poe eee case eRe ae a headquarters was leased h ainst y Pk He by a man who gave his name-as Henry @ ieves that Iam : even now ly- This: inforination gave Trim a gteat -in the tunnel.’? 0 > | ae al of hope, for the initials of the name en window must have told corresponded with the letters that formed 1 had got out through the the monogram on the broken cuff button. ‘““Then,’’? said Pemberton, ‘‘the fellow ‘ _-It was still possible that Henry Gard- oh 5 ae +e RAMOS ors. Be. ner might be an assumed name, but it sr I shall have work to do to- was not probable. ~ Pes . ee tet a ne ae eS + . - — - - oa - * x are 7 a ‘“T think that his highness would —